Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/718 -gerrit commit b26c9b0c087f14a84b08b62f6f0c2796ac9253d1 Author: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org> Date: Wed Sep 28 13:51:30 2011 -0700 CBMEM CONSOLE: Add config option for CBMEM stored console log. Some experiments have demonstrated that total amount of text generated by coreboot console when BIOS_SPEW level is enabled exceeds 40KB. Console output generated before DRAM is initialized can exceed 2KB. This patch introduces the new configuration option and assigns adequate default values to cache based and DRAM based console buffers. BUG=chrome-os-partner:4200 TEST=manual . run the following commands in the root directory cp config.stumpy .config make menuconfig . enable the new option (Console->Send console output to a CBMEM buffer) . save the configuration Observe the following settings added to the config: +CONFIG_CONSOLE_CBMEM=y +CONFIG_CONSOLE_CBMEM_BUFFER_SIZE=0xae00 +CONFIG_CONSOLE_CAR_BUFFER_SIZE=0xc00 Change-Id: I209603f516244ae136631e6281ba21ebc6fb1710 Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-int.chromium.org/5855 Tested-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com> --- src/console/Kconfig | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/console/Kconfig b/src/console/Kconfig index dbd11f6..fefbe2e 100644 --- a/src/console/Kconfig +++ b/src/console/Kconfig @@ -190,6 +190,33 @@ config CONSOLE_NE2K_IO_PORT 32 bytes of IO spaces will be used (and align on 32 bytes boundary, qemu needs broader align) +config CONSOLE_CBMEM + depends on EARLY_CBMEM_INIT + bool "Send console output to a CBMEM buffer" + default n + help + Enable this to save the console output in a CBMEM buffer. This would + allow to see coreboot console output from Linux space. + +config CONSOLE_CBMEM_BUFFER_SIZE + depends on CONSOLE_CBMEM + hex "Room allocated for console output in CBMEM" + default 0xae00 + help + Space allocated for console output storage in CBMEM. The default + value (almost 45K or 0xaeoo bytes) is large enough to accommodate + even the BIOS_SPEW level. + +config CONSOLE_CAR_BUFFER_SIZE + depends on CONSOLE_CBMEM + hex "Room allocated for console output in cash as RAM" + default 0xc00 + help + Console is used before RAM is initialized. This is the room reserved + in the DCACHE based RAM to keep console output before it can be + saved in a CBMEM buffer. 3K bytes should be enough even for the + BIOS_SPEW level. + choice prompt "Maximum console log level"